YouTube Plugin: Running into problems writing the RSS Feed

[hvs69]

I am currently trying to write a plugin that will bring YouTube content into Xlobby. The idea is very simple:

Download the RSS feeds from Youtube using their API
Convert the RSS feeds into Xlobby readable XML database by applying XSL transform

I have most of the pieces working but having strange problems with writing the full content of RSS feeds into a file. Here is the simplified relevant code

Code: Select all

      try
                {
HttpWebRequest myreq = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://youtube.com/rss/global/top_viewed_today.rss");
                HttpWebResponse myrep = (HttpWebResponse)myreq.GetResponse();
                StreamReader mystream = new StreamReader(myrep.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);
           
         
                   
                    string outputstring;
                    outputstring = mystream.ReadToEnd();
                    FileStream fs = new FileStream("temp.txt", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
                    StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs);
                    sw.Write(outputstring);
                    //Console.WriteLine(outputstring);
}



The problem is that when I try to write the RSS webstream to file "temp.txt", it does not write the full feed to the file. Several lines are missing at the end.

On the other hand, if I dump the outputstring to the console (as seen in the commented line in the above code), I can see the whole stream.

I cannot understand this. Can someone please help ?

[badubo]

try first to close your StreamWriter before leaving, it will may be flush the content

[scottw]

This sounds interesting please keep us posted!!!

[dry_flood]

I dont know if your still working on this but have you ever heard of XBMC (xbox media center) it is an opensource media center for a modified xbox, but they have a youtube plugin that works, maybe you can have a look at that since it is open source and check their code against yours.

I think it is written in python, dont know if that will be any good for you though.

Gaz